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Trickle-down Reaganomics giving Nancy, Nancy 🇵🇸

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@flolikethis Got Them #TATC

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@BeyyGlobal Putting Dublin on there as well, you’re sick in the head

[✨Nipples from the house of versace✨ @nyongbella_]

That AI fruit slop- shit from a butt!!
It will never replicate this gem.
This is the perfect amalgam of artistic brilliance and frightfully excessive lust that only mankind can generate. 🩵

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@missmaamshe My QUEEN 🙂‍↕️

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#SpotifyWrapped @missmaamshe

[Irish Video Game Orchestra ➡️Bluesky🦋 @IVGOrch]

We completely agree with @garysnowpatrol. The Arts have been suffering for many years, with budgets continually decreased by short-sighted governments.

This is a much longer post than we usually write and will apply to the arts as a whole, not just music, but the latter is our focus. Fair warning, I am not a writer and I do not have an editor.

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The value of the arts to society cannot be easily itemised on a spreadsheet. Since before the pandemic, extra-curricular activities have been reduced, budgets to arts organisations have been taken away, and activity in the sector is shrinking, not growing.

Late-stage capitalism has a stranglehold on society and everything is judged by the bottom line (I can sense the voice of @BrennanLM brewing while writing this). Companies are laying off while recording record profits. Operas and Ballets are dropping live music in favour of recorded tracks from cheaper locations. Live events are dwindling and the ticket prices are growing to an amount that most cannot afford.

Music has an indirect benefit to our lives that is hard to quantify. There are many careers that require creative thinking - this author happens to be a software engineer - and encouraging participation in the Arts actually increases the value of a society's "useful" output (as judged by capitalism...). A society that fails to invest in the arts will later ask why other areas are declining.

Aside from that though, music brings us joy. It needs no further reason to exist. What are we on this planet for, if not to find the things that bring us and others happiness?

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Running an arts organisation takes tremendous effort and energy. More often than not, this is given freely by volunteers - volunteers who are passionate about video game music. There is intrinsic value in what they do, and it enriches the lives of us as volunteers as well as audiences who we bring the music to. We are privileged to have so many willing to be involved.

We have also been privileged to be supported by so many awesome people in the games industry. From @SamanthaBeart for graciously hosting our last event, to @The_Ben_Starr who introduced our Final Fantasy performance. @larianstudios, @lukekarmali, @Borislav_Slavov, @Bethesda_UK, @Markisskill and @InonZur who so willingly gave us access to their amazing music. Everyone in the group is tremendously grateful to you all.

The IVGO exists to connect musicians and audiences with incredible video game music in an orchestral setting. This music is modern, dynamic, and exciting! I firmly believe if Mozart or Beethoven were composing today, they would be composing for video games. They would also likely find it difficult to obtain funding.

Seeing our musicians go from "I haven't played since school" to standing on stage in front of a crowd of hundreds or thousands brings us immense joy. There is no better reason than that to invest in the Arts.

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We call on @gordonlyons1 to be our champion for the NI Arts Sector. Once it's gone, it'll be too late. This local community orchestra is here if you ever want to attend a rehearsal and see what we do - that invite is open to any @ArtsCouncilNI representatives as well! We do this with or without money - we do this for joy.

If you read this far, thank you! Continue supporting local arts, and video game music ❤️🎮

[Chazz @chazzers_]

the way she was able to differentiate
each Diet Coke with in depth reasonings this is what I am training to be

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[wiLL @willfulchaos]

gay people checking their spotify wrapped map:

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About to make this my entire personality

[Chase Icon @chaseicon]

SOCAL GIRL OUT NOW 💗

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Who knew you couldn’t write a full dissertation in a week and a half, not me, because now I’ve two days left of my extension and my hair is falling out

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@carryymeout DR FIERCE , IVE TWO DIVAS DOWN AND THEY NEED 50ML OF CUNT STAT

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Sick and twisted that the fam decided to get a puppy and I can’t get home because I have a stupid dissertation to write 😭😭